I have to say this year has been bad for fires. We had three get within a mile of our house this year. I was in the woods in August and a good fart would have burned down half of western WA. It is better now, but still high. As for WeyCO, the best "sign" game I saw was on Ft. Lewis. In area 23 they posted a big area closed to public access due to fire danger. This is on a federal installation. When I asked a MP about it he told me Weyco could go pee up a rope. If you elk hunters noticed, and I am sure you did, last year Weyco ditched and gated most of the Mossyrock and Winston creek woods. The land there is co-owned by about four different agencies. You could not reach the state stuff because of a big old ditch right in the middle of the road. Said it was because of vandalism. I heard of about three "gate pulling" incidents in Oct-Nov. What needs to happen is vandals and dumpers need to be severly punished. I mean 2000 hours of trash picking up, in the WOODS, in their POV which is then taken by the state. Along with jail time and a huge fine paid to the state DFW and land owner. If someone were to be tossed in jail for a month, spend about a year picking up trash, pay a 5000 dollar fine and loose their car, dumping would drop off sharply. To increase the likely hood getting caught, anyone who photographs or records the dumper in the act would be paid a reward of 1000 dollars upon conviction. Or maybe just be shot on site and buried under the trash they dumped. That would work too. As for the game wardens and criminal citations, most GW's are fully commissioned law enforcement officers. Which means on top of the required four year degree, they went to the police acadamy and have the same rights as a cop.